"...when you cut into the past the future sometimes bleeds through" Tonight at Mikvah: Immersion in Collaborative Judaism: "Jewish mythology describes the fading of divine awareness among humankind in a midrash where the Shekhina flees from this world. With each transgression of humankind she ascends higher and higher, from one level of the cosmos to the next, until she disappears beyond the cosmic shell upon which the stars trace the destinies of mortal men and women. Rather than beckoning her return, humankind begins to worship the stars beyond which her presence was hidden. Their mistaken passion beckons a host of angels (the souls of the stars) to descend and prove their rightful inheritance of Adamah, the living Earth. The knowledge and confusion these divine gurus impart disrupts the natural harmony of all life and endangers their very survival. The progeny of these angels, the Giants, model a nonconsensual predatory diet to humankind. The rest of nature takes note and creatures begin for the first time to eat one another, transgressing the peace of Eden and bringing into being the natural world we know today. But alas, hope is not lost! Teshuva (return) is still possible. We can bring comfort and peace to this broken world before the dawn of the Next Age. Reb Spaceling (Aharon Varady) promises to mix a set of psychedelic space and ambient music that may just tempt the Shekhinah back to Earth, or else open the ears and minds of audiophiles and psychonauts to the divine presence hidden within the shells of their own innerverse. This is a high order, so please give him encouragement as he mixes a set running a musical history from pop psychedelique (Mort Garson, Jean-Luc Perry) through the minimalists (Terry Riley and Philip Glass), and from proto-New Age proggers (Steve Hillage and Daevid Allen) and German space musicians (Michael Hoenig, Edgar Froese) to Ambient dub masters (the Orb, Dr. Atmo, and Future Sound of London). William Burroughs once said concerning the surrealist technique of the cut-up that when you cut into the past (e.g., in making collages from newspapers) the future sometimes bleeds through. In this cutup, Reb Spaceling will practice a spritual practice of audio midrash, anticipating through the creative act, that new dimensions of prophetic awareness may be revealed.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 00:08:15 +0000
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